The JOY Broadcast

As part of our Easter inspiration series, celebrating women who inspire me and whose stories I know will inspire you, I'm joined by the wonderful Steph McConachy, founder of Nine Lemons Feng Shui. We met through the magic of Instagram and our mutual friend Kimberly Gallagher, and I have loved watching Steph's extraordinary journey unfold. In just three months, she grew her audience from 3,000 to 30,000 followers and she credits Feng Shui.
This conversation is joyful, practical, and deeply moving. We talk about the power of your home to support your life, your business, and your healing, and how making small, intentional changes to your space can create profound shifts in everything from your visibility to your nervous system.
What We Cover
🍋 Why nine lemons? The story behind the name, from the power of the number nine in Feng Shui (we're in Cycle Nine!) and a secret nod to Real Housewives, to the Susan Jeffers "nine grid" and why a full life is the ultimate insurance policy.
🗺️ The Bagua Map explained. The nine areas of your life mapped to your home: knowledge, career, helpful people, family, health, children and creativity, wealth, fame and reputation, and love. Steph walks us through how she reads a floor plan and what she can tell about someone's life just from where the bathrooms are.
📈 How Steph went from 3,000 to 30,000 followers in three months by intentionally activating the fame, visibility and recognition area of her home, cleaning the windows, replacing dull bulbs, placing a plant, and setting clear, specific intentions.
🌿 The power of intention setting. Why Feng Shui is not just putting lemons on a bench. How to speak to your home, talk to your plants, and use the nine areas as a 3D vision board for the life you want to create.
🏠 Your home holds energy. Steph shares her deeply personal story of losing her son, buying a house in grief, and eventually using Feng Shui to reclaim her space and move forward. This led to her brand new programme Reclaim Your Space, for anyone navigating a major life transition.
💼 The command position. Why where you sit at your desk matters more than you think, how cortisol levels drop when your back is against a wall, and why so many brilliant women are running seven-figure businesses from a corner of the spare room, shoved aside for a bed that gets used seven nights a year.
🌍 Finding peace when the world feels uncertain. Why your home is your greatest source of empowerment right now, and the small acts of care that bring you back to safety.
Steph's Offers
 Let It Go — a 7-day container to release "past self anchors" (not just decluttering, but energetically letting go)
 Reclaim Your Space — a brand new 4-week programme to shake the energy of your home through transition, grief, change, or a fresh start
 The Energetic Advantage — a 6-month deep dive (next round opening May)
👁️ One-to-one work — private Feng Shui consultations, email me [email protected]
Find Steph
📱 Instagram: @ninelemonsfengshui 
www.ninelemonsfengshui.com

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This Easter, Ali wanted guests with real stories. not picture-perfect ones, but the kind with roller coasters, sharp turns, and joy found in the most unexpected places. Vics Endersby of Wonderland Blooms is exactly that. In this warm, funny, and genuinely inspiring conversation, Vicks takes us through the chapters of her life from the rug being pulled, to cleaning other people's bathrooms, to skydiving alone, to building a wedding floristry business she loves, working with Paula Rooney in Vienna and Italy, and raising a daughter who is already pitching her first wholesale deals at thirteen. This is a story about gut instinct, small daily joys, and what happens when you back yourself completely.

What We Cover
The rug pull. A decade ago, Vicks found herself cleaning toilets for a living, wondering how her comfortable, cottage-and-wood-burning-stove life had come undone. A marriage she thought was solid had quietly been heading elsewhere. When she found out, she did not wait. Scariest thing she had ever done. Most empowering thing she had ever done.
The rebuilding. Single parenting, cleaning jobs, a bakery run by a woman in her sixties who became an unlikely mentor, and eventually a role at Pig and Pastry in York
The sky stuff. Four solo skydiving jumps. Gliding lessons. A gyrocopter. All of it done alone, all of it in the period after her marriage ended. Her brain, she says, is quietest in freefall. Ali's theory: when you have already made the biggest leap of your life, throwing yourself out of a plane is just confirmation that you will always pull the chute.
The flowers. Vicks had always wanted to be a florist.  It took a marriage, a rebuild, and a bolt-upright moment in bed next to her new husband Mark to say: I am starting a wedding floristry business from this garage. He said yes, dear. 
The career that kept growing. From Friday flowers on a broken three-speed bike, Wonderland Blooms has grown into a full wedding floristry business. Vics has worked with florist-to-the-stars Paula Rooney in Vienna. She drove a van through Pisa on four hours' notice. She works alongside Kim at Dreambirds and Carousels on large-scale events. 
The loss. Vicks lost her mum recently. She talks about grief with the same directness she brings to everything else  it strips layers, she says. She has no time for imposter syndrome anymore. Life is for living.
The legacy. Vicks wants to write a book. A coffee table book, or something more, she is still deciding. She wants her children to know what those early Saturday mornings were for. 

Joy, says Vicks, is in the small significant things, not the big dramatic ones. Her favourite colour grounds her on a hard day. That is enough. That is everything.

Find Vicks
📸 Instagram: @wonderlandblooms_  get in touch via Instagram 🌿 Subscription flowers (local delivery)

Resources from Ali
🌸 The Joy Rebellion Ali's membership for women who are done waiting for permission to choose joy. £22/month or £222 annually. Joy Rebellion link
✨ Joy in HD The Human Design Mastercourse with three-month bonus mastermind from 1st April. Details here

Remember
The littlest sprinkle of self-belief will get you where you need to be. Back yourself. Trust your gut. Pull the chute.

love always, ali xo
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In this week's Joy Broadcast , Ali talks through two phrases you hear absolutely everywhere in the wellness world. Two phrases that most people don’t truly understand, including the difference between them. In this episode, Ali makes that distinction clear. Plus why 'Regulating' is the wrong word in both cases and what you can do and say instead.
 
In This Episode
Why ‘regulation’ is the wrong word and why it matters
Your nervous system: what it actually is, how it works, and why it’s prehistoric by design
The sympathetic and parasympathetic states and why we need both
The real reason so many high-performing women can’t lose weight (hint: it’s not what you’re eating)
Your emotional system: the ocean inside you, and how the mind makes sense of it
Why you can be emotionally intelligent and still absolutely exhausted
Body first, then brain, the sequence that changes everything
How to work out which system needs your attention right now

The Key Insight

Your nervous system is your physiology,  the body, the container. Your emotional system is your psychology, the ocean of feelings held within that container. Most women are working hard on one and bypassing the other entirely. And if your nervous system is stuck in a stress response, your prefrontal cortex has gone offline, which means all the therapy, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence in the world can’t land properly.
Body first. Then the brain. The container, then the ocean.
“We aren’t heating systems with knobs. We are oceans. And you cannot calm an entire ocean with a knob.”
 
Links & Next Steps

→ Download the Joy List — free in the Joy Emporium
→ Join The Joy Rebellion (membership, £222/year): Joy Rebellion
→ Brilliance  private one-to-one mentorship with Ali: Work with me
→ Email Ali: [email protected]
 If you’re not sure which system needs attention right now, the body or the emotional ocean,  start with the Joy List & the Daily Dose (number one in the Joy Emporium  for free) . It works on both. And if you want to go deeper with personalised support, come and find me inside The Joy Rebellion or drop me an email.

Lots of love, Ali xo 🌹
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Ali woke up this week with a horrendous migraine  and instead of pushing through or giving up, she did something else entirely. She 'joyed' her way out of it. In this honest, personal, and surprisingly practical episode, Ali shares exactly what she did hour by hour to heal herself using her own joy strategy and why this was a powerful reminder that joy isn't just a philosophy. It is a healer, a strategy, and a verb.

The Key Ideas
Joy is a verb. 'To joy' is to actively, deliberately choose yourself, your rest, your pleasure, your peace is the strategy. Not something you do after everything else. The thing you do first, or nothing else works properly.
Frustration is a signal. As a Generator in Human Design, Ali knows that frustration is her not-self theme,  the signal that she is out of alignment with her own energy. A migraine is her body's loudest version of that message. When she honours it, everything flows. When she ignores it, everything costs twice as much.
Slowing down is not falling behind. In choosing to rest, write for pleasure, meditate, and walk slowly, Ali ended the day having done more than she had planned and all of it felt like ease.
Joy is chemistry. The Daily DOSE  (Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Endorphins)  is not a concept. It is a biological strategy. When you flood your body with these hormones through small, deliberate acts of joy, you change your internal chemistry. Ali has the OG joy list to prove it, a tiny scrap of paper she has kept since 2016.

Resources Mentioned
The Original Daily DOSE Episode scroll to the very first episode of The Joy Broadcast for the full story of how joy healed Ali in 2016. Listen here. 
F*ck Discipline. I Know a Better Way — the Substack article Ali wrote in the sunshine this morning on the energy of devotion. Read it here.
The Reason Your To-Do List Never Gets Shorter — the practical Substack article on the 4 D's and the 3 R's. Link: Read it here.
The Joy Rebellion: Ali's membership community. 52 weeks of devoted joy, weekly personalised coaching, and eight years of programmes and trainings. £222 for the year (or pay in instalments of £22),  annual members receive a private one-to-one call with Ali. Find the Joy Rebellion 
Joy in HD The Human Design Mastercourse. Every element of your unique chart, mapped across your body, your work, and your relationships. Including a three-month bonus mastermind with Ali from 1st April. Currently on pre-sale at £1,111. (prices subject to change depending on when you listen)

Remember
Joy isn't what you earn after you've got through the hard day. Joy is how you get through it.
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In this meaty, educational episode, Ali takes you through one of the most powerful exercises she does with her private clients: identifying your core values. Because when you truly know your values, you have an anchor that nothing and no one can take from you. You have confidence that comes from within, not from external validation. And you have the most powerful antidote to anyone who tries to shame, judge, or hurt you.
This is the work that has given Ali the clarity to stand on stage, be visible, and receive both praise and criticism, all with an unshakeable sense of who she is.
What We Cover in This Episode
Why knowing your values changes everything When your inner world and outer world are aligned, living out of integrity with yourself becomes impossible. Ali shares how this work protected her in a pivotal moment and how it does the same for her clients every single day.
Values as your antidote When someone throws criticism, judgment, or hate your way, your values are the truth that makes their poison dissolve. Ali even uses them to identify why something is hurting, so she can let it go and move on.
Ali's own core values Grit. Grace. Gratitude. Growth. Genuine. Generosity. All beginning with G (because Ali loves alliteration and words are her love language). She walks you through how she arrived at each one, and why Grace was the newest addition and the one she still has to consciously remember.

The values discovery exercise — step by step
Grab a blank sheet of paper and write down everything you value in life. Fill the whole page. Don't edit yourself.
Ask yourself: When did I feel really, really good about myself? Why? Who was I being? What was I honouring?
Ask yourself: When did I feel really hurt or sad? What values were stepped on?
Start grouping your words — find the one word that holds all the others for you.
Make your list memorable. Alliteration, acronyms, whatever helps you know them off the top of your head.
Living the practice Over the next week, witness yourself. When you feel good, which values are you honouring? When you feel off, which ones have been stepped on? This is a practice, not a one-time exercise. Keep coming back to it.

Resources Mentioned
I Know Me and I Love Me:  Life Lab workshop inside The Joy Rebellion. A deep-dive into understanding and truly knowing yourself, which Ali shares with all her private clients early in their work together.
Love for Life: A full programme Ali wrote in 2021 during one of her most challenging chapters, helping you start the greatest love affair you'll ever have, the one with yourself. Only available inside The Joy Rebellion.
Rebel HD: Arriving on 23rd March. A brand new three-part workshop series using Human Design to understand yourself in your Body, Bedroom, and Boardroom. Available exclusively inside The Joy Rebellion.
Joy in HD: The full master course. 12 modules of Human Design, plus a live mastermind element with Ali via Telegram and Zoom. Starting 1st April. Currently on pre-sale at £1,111. Joy in HD Presale until 23rd March.
The Joy Rebellion:  Ali's membership where all of these programmes, courses, and trainings live. Join the community - £222 for the year or 12*£22 per month.
Remember to share the joy on your socials, with friends!
Joy = Just On You. And just on you starts with kno
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